David S Harvey

“As Bonhoeffer reminds us in his christology lectures, the incarnation is not a humiliation for God—it is not as if God finds it unbecoming to take humanity as his own! The incarnation is a humiliation for us, because God comes among us as one without beauty, without desirability or comeliness, making nonsense of every frame of reference, every standard of judgment, every order and scheme we have devised for ourselves as a means of giving our lives significance and stability.”
― Chris E. W. Green, Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters

“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”
― Karl Barth

“when in worship we confess that we are sinners, we are not engaging in self-hatred or self-abuse. Just the opposite, in fact. We are acknowledging to ourselves and to others before God our absolute helplessness to live the lives we want and need to live.”
― Chris E. W. Green, Surprised by God: How and Why What We Think about the Divine Matters